Rugilus (Rugilus) orbiculatus Paykull, 1789

Della Rocca, Francesca, Stefanelli, Silvia, Cardarelli, Elisa, Bogliani, Giuseppe & Bracco, Francesco, 2021, Contribution to the knowledge of the arthropods community inhabiting the winter-flooded meadows (marcite) of northern Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 57889-57889 : 57889

Rugilus (Rugilus) orbiculatus Paykull, 1789

Distribution

Holoarctic species ( ITIS Species 2000 2020). Widespread in Italy but absent in Sardinia where it is replaced by the subspecies Rugilus orbiculatus sardous ( Ruffo and Stoch 2005).

Notes

Lives in olive groves, banks, clearings, coppiced mixed forests, rural settlements, vineyards, parks, wetlands, riverbanks, marshy areas ( Phragmitetum , Caricetum ), sandy small areas, uncultivated areas, wetlands and marshy areas near source ( Zanetti et al. 2016).